My hunch is that all new katas are likelier to be solved first by Top100 peeps who have basically solved all the other ones already and who
tend to underestimate the kata's difficulty to us mere mortals. I've seldom seen an easy kata given a higher kyu but quite often the opposite.

Nice kata, thank you Calvin

I thoroughly enjoyed this kata. Well done, Gabriel!

points for tongue-in-cheek solution!

I wish there were points for aesthetically pleasing solutions :)

phew, I thought it was me until I read the comments

Ta, been asking that myself

that's what I should've done had I taken 2 minutes to refactor my code

On the one hand I like the originality of the approach, on the other I can't help feeling it's a tad overengineered for the task.
I say your effort deserves a "clever", anyway :)

Hands down, the best solution for this problem. Bravo!

simple & beautiful

Could be just me but I was thoroughly confused by the following lines in the description.
I completely disregarded them and still passed all the tests.

to pick a single candy of an even size and split it
into two equal candies half of this size each.```

I'm surprised this elegant solution didn't get any upvotes.

Your descriptions never fail to crack me up!
And the katas are fun to solve too. Thank you DM!

May the ants never beat you to a cheese sandwich.

bravo, imo, it's the most elegant solution